I can’t wait that long, dammit!
The celebrated Italian freedom fighter Giuseppe Garibaldi was offered a field command in the U.S. Army during the Civil War, but declined.
Dante’s The Divine Comedy was written in a Tuscan dialect of Italian. The popularity of the work helped lead to this dialect becoming the base dialect of the entire language.
The five orders of classical architecture are the original Greek trio (Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian) along with the Romans’ additions, Tuscan and composite.
The Corinth Canal, cut through the Isthmus of Corinth at sea level in the late 19th century, made the Peloponnesian Peninsula into an island. It had been proposed, even begun several times, and abandoned several times in antiquity, including under the reigns of Periander, Demetrius, Julius Caesar, and Nero.
Demetrius, Lysander, Helena and Hermia are the young lovers in William Shakespeare’s *A Midsummer Night’s Dream. *
The movies “Boxing Helena” and “Misery” both feature the plot of an obsessed stalker/fan kidnapping said person after the object of their obsession has an automobile accident and later amputating their body parts.
In the movie Misery, the protagonist, James Caan, is mutilated but doesn’t actually suffer amputation. Kathy Bates won an Oscar for her portrayal of his evil captor, Annie Wilkes.
EDIT: Oops- sorry- I was on the wrong page and didn’t realize it.
Although Garibaldi lived long enough to see Italian unification finally achieved,
his own birthplace Nizza, now Nice, ironically did not become part of the new
country. It was ceded to France in return for French support during the final stage
of the unification struggle.
I think you overlooked the posts after the Garibaldi contribution by Elendil’s Heir. Let’s see if I can tie yours and the previous one together. Ah, here we go…
Kathy Bates speaks English, French, and Spanish at various points of the film Midnight in Paris.
Batesean Mimicry, formulated by Henry Walter Bates, describes a situation where a harmless organism mimics the appearance of a more harmful organism so predators will mistake it for the other. The best-known example is the viceroy butterfly, which mimics the appearance of the monarch butterfly. The monarch tastes bad to birds, and the soon learn to leave it alone, thus leaving the viceroy butterfly alone, too.
On the movie set for Psycho (1960), Alfred Hitchcock would always refer to Anthony Perkins as “Master Bates.”
Another prominent example of mimicry is the harmless Scarlet King Snake’s red-black-yellow-black sequence
of colored bands which somewhat resemble the red-yellow-black set of the deadly Eastern Coral Snake.
“Red and yellow kill a fellow, red and black friend of Jack” is a useful mnemonic for distinguishing those
two southeastern US species.
However, there are dozens of other coral snake species elsewhere in the Americas whose coloring and banding
patterns do not conform to the mnemonic, including the widespread Micrurus lemniscatus of South America on whom
red bands do touch black bands.
The custom of wearing a black band on one’s sleeve to indicate mourning came from the military, where personnel wore an armband with their standard uniform. During the era of Queen Victoria it spread to servants, after a member of the household died.
The title of the Elizabethan song “Greensleeves” may refer to a “green gown”, then a slang term for a prostitute (whose dress would gather grass stains). It is sometimes attributed to Henry VIII, who cast Anne Boleyn off discourteously, but definitely postdates him.
You may remember the fates of King Henry VIII’s six wives, in proper order, by the rhyme, “Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived.”
The song “I’m Henery the VIII, I am” became the fastest-selling song in history to that point when released in 1965 by Herman’s Hermits and was also the group’s second number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Malcom X was assasinated after a 1965 speech.
Malcolm Wilson was NY state Lieutenant Governor for three and a half terms, the longest time in office in the 20th century. He became governor in 1973, when Nelson Rockefeller resigned to be vice president.
Nelson Rockefeller was the second man, after Ford himself, to be appointed to the office by the President and with the consent of Congress in accordance with the 25th Amendment.
The Rockefeller Museum, at first officially known as the Palestine Archaeological Museum, is in East Jerusalem. As tradition has it, Ezra the Scribe wrote the Torah under a pine tree in what is now the museum’s courtyard.